Assortative mating on risk attitude

Theory and Decision

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 389-401

  Bacon, Philomena M ^a   Conte, Anna ^b,c   Moffatt, Peter G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b Growth and Public Policy   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assortative mating; Homophily; Multiple equation models; Ordinal data; Panel data; Risk attitude; Spousal correlation

Indexed keywords

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ASSORTATIVE MATING; EQUATION MODELS; HOMOPHILY; ORDINAL DATA; PANEL DATA; RISK ATTITUDE;

RISK PERCEPTION;

EID: 84920710700     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: 15737187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11238-014-9448-x     Document Type: Article

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